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. >> take it away from us, lord. >> tornadoes took up three slots in our top ten countdown. but this was the deadliest. march 2nd and 3rd, 70 confirmed tornadoes killed 7 people in the northwest. hurricane isaac. >> isaac was a killer. >> the country held its breath as the levees. >> reporter: yet again. plaquemine's parish was tested. by september, 66% of the u.s. was in some degree of drought. the dry weather is expected to continue into 2013. and this could become the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history. and number one, superstorm sandy. >> this historic superstorm made landfall over the most populated areas hoft united states. even snowstorms are threatening the lives and homes of people from virginia to massachusetts. >> never seen devastation like this in my life. >> the surf here getting much more violent. >> curfew is under way right now. you are not to be on this street. >> keeping an eye on the possibility of flooding. >> superstorm sandy has crippled the nation's biggest transit system. >> talking about flooding, possible power outages. that could last for
. >> take it away from us, lord. >> tornadoes took up three slots in our top ten countdown. but this was the deadliest. march 2nd and 3rd, 70 confirmed tornadoes killed 7 people in the northwest. hurricane isaac. >> isaac was a killer. >> the country held its breath as the levees. >> reporter: yet again. plaquemine's parish was tested. by september, 66% of the u.s. was in some degree of drought. the dry weather is expected to continue into 2013. and this could...
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oh, lord. look there. wow. >> wow is right. this is how people in mobile, alabama spent much of christmas day. they were hunkered down and watching at least one tornado rip up trees, whip around power lines and just in this one spot from east texas to the gulf coast of alabama you have weather officials counting 28 tornadoes that hit ground on christmas day. now, in southern alabama right now more than 200,000 homes are without power. we are live from mobile in just a minute with the full picture of the damage there. all right. you are watching -- this is an enormous funnel cloud. it formed and touched down near interstate 165 in mobile. david and whitney sarasino were driving to see their family for christmas and realized they were headed right into the tornado. >> well, the first thing was i had asked my wife it to pick up the camera and start getting some footage of it, because i know that the local news stations and everything were want wanting to see what was going on. at that point we just kind of drove as fast as we poss
oh, lord. look there. wow. >> wow is right. this is how people in mobile, alabama spent much of christmas day. they were hunkered down and watching at least one tornado rip up trees, whip around power lines and just in this one spot from east texas to the gulf coast of alabama you have weather officials counting 28 tornadoes that hit ground on christmas day. now, in southern alabama right now more than 200,000 homes are without power. we are live from mobile in just a minute with the full...
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oh, lord. look at there. wow. look at that. dear jesus please keep your hands-on my sister and her family. >> reporter: scary stuff but she kept shooting that video on a cellphone, that was in downtown mobile alabama. the danger is not over yet. right now tornado watches are in effect for eastern, north and south carolina while heavy no and blizzard conditions will impact the ohio valley and northeast. we will have more on that in a live update from maria molina in the fox weather center in a moment. first we go to elizabeth pran live in atlanta with more on the storms wreaking havoc. >> reporter: we saw about 34 reported twisters spawn after the storm hit the southeast. originated really in texas where people reported pretty heavy wind gusts there. thousands of folks having a very dark christmas eve as crews scrambled to restore power. they stretched through parts of alabama, louisiana, mississippi and northwest florida. roofs were blown off homes in mobile, the biggest city to be hit by numerous rare winter twisters as well a
oh, lord. look at there. wow. look at that. dear jesus please keep your hands-on my sister and her family. >> reporter: scary stuff but she kept shooting that video on a cellphone, that was in downtown mobile alabama. the danger is not over yet. right now tornado watches are in effect for eastern, north and south carolina while heavy no and blizzard conditions will impact the ohio valley and northeast. we will have more on that in a live update from maria molina in the fox weather center...